Business and Organizational Psychology, Department of Computational and Cognitive Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, University of Duisburg-Essen, Lotharstraße 65, D-47057 Duisburg, Germany Department of Psychology, University of Fribourg, Rue de Faucigny 2, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland Research Institute for Organizational Psychology, University of St. Gallen, Varnbüelstrasse 19, CH-9000 St. G...

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Data mining is the process of discovering correlations, patterns, trends or relationships by searching through a large amount of data stored in repositories, corporate databases, and data warehouses. Industrial procedures with the help of engineers, managers, and other specialists, comprise a broad field and have many tools and techniques in their problem-solving arsenal. The purpose of this st...

in the current world, entrepreneurs are origin of great developments in industrial, servant and commercial contexts and are motivator of development. the main objective of this study was to explore and deeply explain the experiences of entrepreneurs about entrepreneurship phenomenon, as they perceive themselves. research method was qualitative in the way of phenomenology. population included su...

Notwithstanding the risky, unconventional, and demanding nature of Special Operations Forces (SOF) missions, the assessment and selection of SOF candidates should be governed by the same principles that prevail in the selection of candidates in other sophisticated organizations. This chapter applies western industrial psychology guidelines and procedures to SOF by providing a general overview o...

This paper aims to contribute to understanding the dynamics of industrial symbiosis. More specifically, we focus on the dynamics of anchoring as they can be observed in the Chinese context of eco-industrial development. We define anchoring as those activities that (typically local) actors perform to create local physical and institutional conditions conducive to the emergence and further develo...

The exchange of wastes, by-products, and energy among closely situated firms is one of the distinctive features of the applications of industrial ecological principles.This at= ticle examines the industrial district at Kalundborg, Denmark, often labeled as an “industrial ecosystem” or “industrial symbiosis” because ofthe many links among the firms.The forces that led to its evolution and to the...

Resistance to animal and human therapeutic antibiotics is well known and understood among both the scientific and lay community. Performance failures with industrial microbicides are commonly discussed as if the same phenomenon occurs here also. Much of this is indeed fantasy, as the mode of action of most, but not all, industrial microbicides are based on a fundamentally different principle th...

The independent verification and validation (IV&V) of simulation models is largely restricted to applications in the military and public policy domains. There is little evidence of IV&V for industrial simulation models. This is largely because industrial simulations are normally of a much smaller scale and do not warrant a full IV&V. A procedure for IV&V of industrial simulation models is descr...